Posts made by Sawduster

I tried using my middle finger on the wheel and man, that was difficult. Guess if I did it enough I could get used to it, but . . .

Wow, that is great stuff. Thanks for the links.

Which (of so very many) St Peters Churches and/or Cathedrals are you referring to? 12th Century and Saxon style might likely mean the one in Hertfordshire?

The old Cathedrals and Churches have always amazed me.

The Google free version of SketchUp only offers a couple export options. For 3d it offers a format used in Google Earth, and 2D only jpg. To get exporters of other formats you've got to get the pay version, SketchUp Pro. Thus the "Get Pro Exporters" option.

Bob,
Thanks for your kind words.

One thing that really came in handy on this was I exported a parallel 2D view of one of the end of one of the stretchers and used it to set my sliding T-Bevel to transfer the very small offset to the miter gauge on the table saw to match the taper of the legs when cutting the shoulders for the tenons.

The table now is used to hold the Baptismal Font, so I had to refinish the top as the spillover from the first Baptism ate right through the shellac finish I had used. Repaired it and put several coats of polyurethane over the dewaxed shellac, so that ought to do the trick.

Yeah, that is likely the case. I just went and measured the offset of the arc in the SKP and it is around 2". If I remember correctly, the bending forms I made for the rails had a 2 inch offset, but I got some spring back when I took them out of the forms. Another difference is that the skp has the front stiles colinear to each other when viewed from above while those in the actual piece continue tangent to the curve. I cut the tenons and the grooves for the panels on the rails prior to steam bending them.

Per request. I actually built the lecturn pictured without plans prior to my getting into using SU for design. I modeled it in SU after the fact.

Here's the SU export.

And the skippy: http://www.sawdustersplace.com/Sketchup%20files/Podium.skp
This doesn't have all of the joinery as it was one of my earlier attempts.

And a photo of the lecturn in the shop.

You mean this one?

Don't have a skippy for that. It is built from the Hal Taylor http://www.haltaylor.com/ plans.

I thought I had that in storage on my web site, but I guess not. I'll check at home this evening. Did post about another piece of alter furniture I made in another thread, though.

Back in September the minister of our church asked me to make a "sandbox table" for the alter of the church. She explained it was to be used initially for a special candle service for All Souls Day. Simply a box on table legs in which sand or like material would be poured to hold candles that parishioners would light in memory of lost loved ones. She also asked that it have a top that could be added for use as a table. I drew it up in SU and presented some exported pics for her to see before I started building it. Anyway, she approved of the design and I built the piece. This was my first attempt at building something from my own design in SU.

Here's the SU export, and

http://www.sawdustersplace.com/Sketchup%20files/SandTable.skp

And a pic of the final piece. The top opens using loose pin hinges that allow the top to slide off and be set aside.

Bob,
That is really cool. I built an alter lecturn for our church some time back. I was not using SketchUp at the time, but modeled it afterward. I'm also going to be building the prayer rail for our church as soon as I can get caught up on the other stuff. That I modeled in the design process and will be using export pictures of the parts as I build. It was very cool to be able to model a couple different ideas to show to the minister and other members of the church counsel to decide on which design.

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Asked this down at the corner bar, but seems lots of folks don't visit there.

The corner bar is the most frequented section of the board. Just gotta know where to put things Glad you got a response

Guess the section on gadgets and software and such was not the right place, huh?

I was just down on the main Corner Bar Forum andlooks like that's pretty active. The subforum on software seems a little slow, though.

You know, I had to laugh at all the folks who were out protesting and claiming the war in Iraq was a war for oil. Go back to the first gulf war, and they said the same about Kuwait. Shows how ignorant the protesters really are.

Go back to the 1970s when gas prices went from less than 30 cents a gallon in many places in the US up to over 50 cents a gallon and remember when the prices leveled off there. Seems there was this pipeline that the oil companies wanted to lay up in Alaska and it was being held up by the government at the behest of the environmentalists. Pocket books got involved and an oil line got put in.

G.W. was not in gasoline production, he was involved in domestic drilling and exploration. He never did want cheaper ME oil. ANWAR is what the drilling and exploration people want. More drilling off of the coast in the Gulf and the Atlantic is what they want.

How much is there? I truly don't know. The environmentalists say it would be a drop in the bucket, others like the fella on the video say it would make our current imports seem to be a drop in the bucket. Thing is, you can't really believe what any of them tell you. And don't depend on the press to tell you the truth, either. They're not interested in the truth.

Oh yeah, I do the 3d intersects often, cabriol legs and the sort. Only way to do some things.

G Code not being standardized was not one of the first things I would like to have heard.

There are several software packages to convert from DWG to G Code, and a ruby to convert SU to STL, and some other package to convert that to g code. I know the stuff I've imported from dwg with some curved faces and stuff like that does not come in real clean, so exporting SU to dwg in Pro might yield some similar results, and doing a double conversion is just asking for more problems.

I was able to do it a little simpler (for me anyway). Just explode all of the pickets, draw the arc across them on the front surfaces. Select all pickets and the arc, intersect with model. Then push pull the top of each to the rear and the top part disappears.

Asked this down at the corner bar, but seems lots of folks don't visit there. Is there a ruby or some other software out there (free would be great, but reasonably priced would be nice, too) to convert directly from SU to G code for use in CNC applications? Haven't found anything on the net, but I may be asking the wrong question in my searches.

Yeah, that is very cool, compact, and probably pretty quick. I noticed Jean-Paul using a similar method. Screen exports maybe.

Is there anything, ruby, other software etc to convert SketchUp to G Code for CNC? Free would be very nice, but cheap would be good, too.

I particularly like the idea of automated joint duplication at the other end of a board. The DT would be nice, too.

I'd be willing to test components etc for you.